One of the most important aspects of Python development is interactivity, and PTVS integrates a Python REPL directly into Visual Studio. The REPL window will work for all of the aforementioned Python variants and supports auto-completion, syntax highlighting, and visualizations. For users accustomed to the enhanced REPL provided by IPython, PTVS supports IPython 0.11. For developers using IronPython, the REPL supports Sho.

As mentioned in our previous report, Python refactoring is also included. And if you have Visual Studio Premium or higher, you also get access to profilers “similar to that provided for C#, Visual Basic, C++, and JavaScript”.